'1992-404' is a memorial to dead web links which pokes fun at precious thinking about online identity, 1992 being the beginning of the Internet in its popular form and 404 being the error code a web browser receives when trying to view a dead link. The piece appears as an appropriation of Maya Lins' Vietnam War Memorial, not to degrade the war memorial in any way, but rather to emphasise the triviality of the subject matter by comparing the two. A physical installation of this piece then extends the idea of these ephemeral identities being imbued with physical mortality.

see presentation at http://www.pierremertens.com/digi.htm

Side effects is an interactive tableau about medical business, capitalism and depression.

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To address the issue of global immigration management, Société Réaliste has devised a three-part project consisting of a website, a promotional campaign and a physical installation. The EU Green Card Lottery website mimics a very specific type of website - “parasite” websites - which exploit aspiring migrant workers hoping to apply for the American Green Card Lottery system. These sites encourage migrant candidates to apply to the U.S. State Department Lottery through them and pay for this service which is actually free. These parasite websites are designed to resemble official U.S.

Badplayer es un proyecto sobre la monitorización de usuarios en internet. La navegación por el web es un proceso ascendente. El usuario experimenta varias situaciones, desde la manipulación que sufre de otros hacia él hasta conseguir alcanzar un nivel de control absoluto sobre todos los usuarios que se encuentran por debajo. Tras el aspecto inofensivo de la narración se esconde Badplayer, el jugador perverso que perseguirá al usuario por toda la navegación para imponerle sus reglas. Badplayer es el sistema y tiene todo el control.

the file you can download by pressing a button is randomly chosen. but be aware! it could be pornographic, a virus that crashes your entire system, a britney spears - song or other bad data. but it also could be some really great stuff... who knows?

Global index of the decay of the aura of language, the Dadameter aims at measuring our distance to Dada. It was inspired by the work of the french writer Raymond Roussel. The project is a satire about the recent transmutation of language into a global market ruled by Google et al. and uses the most up-to-date technologies of control to draw cartographies of language at large scale.

Is the economic dynamics of the collective hallucination leading us towards a privatization of the glance? Logo.Hallucination continuously monitors the images circulating on the Internet looking for hidden logos and sends cease & desist emails whenever a copyright violation is detected. The Web, in particular in its version 2.0, is an implementation of the strategies of control in the field of writing. The image, at the opposite, is interpretable with more difficulty by the machine and remains a not very accessible territory.